Holy Cannoli! 2 months have passed!

I thought I would make it a New Years resolution to write more, but, with Facebook in competition with social networking, I find myself updating that more. So, let's see.. since I've last written.. Ryley had her 8th birthday! WOW! Once again, we celebrated at Hampshire Hills with a MIDDLE OF THE WINTER pool party. Nice and small group of girls... here are a few photos.

BAD MOMMY BAD MOMMY BAD MOMMY!!!

So after I think I am DONE re-structuring our blog.. working on it for the last 2 1/2 HOURS... I am just getting ready to sign out.. checking it over .. I REALIZE "wow, that was a nice little tribute to Delaney for her b-day back in APRIL".. then I realize.. "OH MY GOD!! I NEVER did that for ADDY OR RYLEY!!!" So .. here goes:

Adyson Shae Flynn ~ 9/26/07 ~ 6:06 AM ~ 7 lbs. 7.75 oz

*seemed more like a baby elephant!*


The "sissy's" visit:






1st day home:




1st b-day:



2nd b-day: (I'm ashamed to say.. we ALMOST forgot her b-day - when we realized, she was already asleep.. so we ate her cake anyway!!!!) tsk tsk tsk




AND.. I will cut myself a little slack.. since we didn't "officially" celebrate Ryley's b-day. That will be Sat. Jan. 30th.. needed a little time to reserve $$ after our Disney trip!

Here goes:

Ryley Jo Flynn ~ 12/31/01 ~ 4:53 AM ~ 6 lbs. 11.3 oz. ~









1st b-day:




2nd b-day:



3rd b-day:




4th b-day:




5th b-day:





6th b-day:




7th b-day:




the 8th b-day will be posted as SOON as it happens...

Keelyn.. you'll have to wait for your 10th b-day for me to do yours!

1st post for TWENTY TEN

Did I say it correctly? (or spell)? I wonder why it is more important to say Twenty Ten instead of Two Thousand Ten?? To-mato To-MAHHH-toe

This week has been another A-typical one... started off a typical Tuesday morning, while I was getting my make up on, I realized DAMN!!! I just used the WRONG eyeliner.. the one I used and FORGOT TO THROW AWAY when I had conjunctivitis that last time. So guess how Wednesday morning went... yep.. once again, for the third time in a month +, conjunctivitis. At least I was "prepared" and had put my antibiotic drops in Tuesday night so it wasn't THAT bad Wed. morning. Also, Delaney has had this horrible cough for weeks... at least 3. Tuesday night, I ran out for a little bit and when I came home, she was burning up - she had a 102 temp. I took her to the Dr. on Wed... SHE'S got pneumonia :-(. My poor baby.. twice in 2 years. At least this time, it seems more like "walking" pneumonia where she is active and not laying on the couch. Her fever's been down, so I'm glad I took her in. The good news.. TODAY IS FRIDAY and this week is OVER! Keelyn and Ryley took their weekly ski/snowboard lesson today. They enjoyed it, and were THRILLED to have "dinner" in the lodge.

Hmmm.. going back a few weeks. We spent New Years Eve with our good friends the Porters. Had a nice low key night.. Chinese, movies, good conversation and laughs.

I've been wanting to post this video.. I just love it. I took it when we were in Disney at Epcot. Delaney is making music with the movement of her hand. You can see the little character on the screen in front of her is moving with her hand movements.



Well, I have 2 sleeping kids at 7:30 on a Friday night.. funny how my first thought is "wow, I should go to sleep".. I'm gettin' OLD!! A quick thought passed through my head after that of when T and I would be "primping" it up getting ready to head into Boston by around 9'ish. WOW...

CHRISTMAS

It doesn't seem like a week ago we were in FL! This week has flown by, and I am proud to say I NEVER hit a mall this whole Christmas season! I would be even prouder if I said Disney WAS the Christmas gift. I couldn't imagine NOTHING under the Christmas tree on Christmas day.. so we did buy a "few" things. On the top of the list was "ZHU ZHU's!" I am lucky to have a cousin as ADD and neurotic as I am who was on a Zhu Zhu mission. We pretty much have almost the whole Zhu Zhu set. Here is a picture of the whole set up.





The girls seem to thoroughly enjoy playing with these "faux" hamsters.. Funny, as they don't care very much for their poor guinea pig!


Keelyn and Ryley received a Nintendo DSi for Christmas, nice, as they played with them all day long. Delaney LOVED playing with her Little Tikes workshop.. and Addy, sat on the kitchen floor most of the day playing with everyone's Zhu Zhu's.

I made a butterflied leg of lamb, that, KUDOS to ME, came out FANTASTIC! We all sat and had dinner, now the crew is watching the Polar Express.

Speaking of... we, once again, won tickets for the Polar Express. We headed off on our journey to the North Pole on Sat. Dec. 5th. And, once again, IT SNOWED!!!! It was so magical! It snowed last year too! The girls loved it and we were joined by our good friends the Porters. (Keelyn's "boyfriends" family) boy, we LOVE them!

We were home for a week after that (Jack was in Calgary BC) so I was not able to QUITE complain of the FREEZING cold, snowy weather we were having as it was -25 where he was!.. BUT, we DID get about 8" of cement like snow that I HAD to shovel.

Sat. Dec. 12th came and as we awaited Jack's arrival, we packed and were READY TO GO! It was so cold here anything warmer than 15 degrees sounded WONDERFUL!

We arrived in Orlando, FL, on Sat. Dec. 12th, at midnight. Got our car and headed right to our place. Sunday was absolutely GORGEOUS. The weather was a WARM 82 degrees and we were at the pool ALL DAY. (1 of 7 pools on the resort!)

Monday the 14th we headed over to Hollywood Studios. A very FULL day. Although I feel that most of our days at Disney were FILLED, we still missed LOTS of rides and shows! It is NO "vacation" to vacation in Disney. You are constantly ON THE GO.. NO REST for the weary!

Tuesday we hung around for 1/2 the day at the pool. Made some friends from Winnipeg, Canada. Then off to the very Merry Mickey Parade at Magic Kingdom. Once the "deadline" came for the people who bought day passes PASSED, it quieted down. We were able to get on rides with NO wait. I do think the cost of the tickets for the "special" parade was QUITE excessive! The parade was nice, but I've seen the electric parade and I think the "enchantment" was about the same.

Wednesday, we headed to Animal Kingdom. They close early, so we spent the whole day there, until 5 pm. The girls really enjoyed seeing all the animals. Unfortunately, they didn't get to ride on the Everest roller-coaster since it was a 60 minute wait. Plus, I think it would have been pretty scary for Keelyn and Ryley anyway.

Thursday, we just hung around. It was somewhat overcast.

Friday, we hung around in the morning, I think a bit burnt out from the 1st 1/2 of the week. We went to Epcot around 2:30.. stayed until 5:30'ish. The girls didn't seem very thrilled with Epcot, as it was raining and we didn't do too much. At the end they were able to get on the ride "Spaceship Earth", which they seemed to enjoy.

All in all, I'm glad we took the girls. I think we tried to do too many things in 1 week. If you have young kids, you really need 1 1/2 days at each park. We definitely missed things, which I hope someday we will get to see when everyone is a little older.

here are some of my favorite pictures...
















































































































I have some great video's, but I think they are too big to upload, I'll check it out.

Back to the Dr. today

Delaney woke up at 3 am... with a 104 TEMP! We're at the dr. at 9:50, he put her on Augmentin. Sent us for a chest x-ray and it was CLEAR. Thank God!

No progress!

Delaney is currently sleeping on the couch. Just before dinner was put on the table, she fell asleep... on and off all day she's been running a fever. I gave her motrin a couple hours ago and she still has a 101.6 fever! Back to the dr. tomorrow, since it will be a whole week of fever for her.

I'm still feeling like CRAP. I called my dr. today to see if they could prescribe some antibiotics. Everytime I lean over I feel like my head is a cinderblock! I think this flu crap has turned into a sinus infection. UGH.. I can't even imagine if anyone else gets this. If we have to stay in this house 1 more day, I think I'll jump out the window. My "BIG" day out the other day was FOOD SHOPPING. Haven't been out since.

Well, just wanted to write a quick update.. I think I'll take the wee one's to bed. I'll TRY to stay up since last night I was asleep around 7:15, and woke up around midnight and was up until around 3 am!!!

Have we turned the corner????

I hope so! Jack had to take Delaney to Immediate care Sunday night because her fever was not responding to motrin OR tylenol.. this is how she came home:




then later on here she is asleep with her BUD!





Then on top of that.. Jack was supposed to leave Sunday afternoon for a trip. He decided to "move" everything until Monday. Well, 1:30 Monday morning... Mr. Flu decided to rear his ugly head again, and my temp. came back to 103! After a whole 24 hours of fever free!!! So the trip was canceled all together! Needless to say, today, Wednesday, Delaney is still home with slight fever, Addy is completely back to herself except for the cough, I'm SLOWLY getting back. I get so exhausted by 3 pm... It was wonderful last night.. both girls asleep at 6:45! I love when Addy decides NOT to nap and the nights ends like that!! :-)